Tag: California water usage

If you’ve been keeping up with the fracking debate and the recent California drought, you’ve probably been hearing a lot of conflicting stories. And all the while, California is so dry, it felt it needed to put historic water restrictions in place. But is fracking causing the water shortage? Not by sheer consumption, no: [Environmentalists have] blamed the 70 million gallons of water used for fracking and the bottled water industry for wasting water, when both count for a minuscule amount, Read more […]